Hello all -I've tried everything I can think of to produce audio and had no luck so far, so here I am asking for your help with troubleshooting. Here are some outputs describing the current state of the system.

One thing you could try more extensively is changing the settings in your mixer. For instance, on my laptop I have to enable the "External Amplifier" option. just play a cd, or some mp3's, open 'kmix', and go to the "Switches" tab. You'll want to try at least the external amplifier option.

I don't see any kind of switches or slider bars labeled 'External Amplifier'. I have the control in the input section labeled 'Line' muted.

I know the speakers are plugged in correctly since both Windows and my old 5.0 SOHO installation both produce sound just fine. So far as I can tell the software recognizes the Ensoniq ES1371 hardware OK but for some reason I just can't get any sound out. Is anything unusual about the two separate device listings returned from the aplay -l command?

Maybe I need to check the permissions on some file that alsa uses ... ?

Well I dug further and came across a shell script to aid ALSA audio debugging at the ALSA wiki. I only see one thing in the Proc Asound section which seems like it might be a problem... would a missing /proc/asound/hwdep file prevent sound? Does anything else here look unusual to you? Is anything missing which might explain why I can't get sound out of ALSA?

Proc Config -----------------------------------------------CONFIG_SOUND=mCONFIG_SND=mCONFIG_SND_TIMER=mCONFIG_SND_PCM=mCONFIG_SND_HWDEP=mCONFIG_SND_RAWMIDI=mCONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=mCONFIG_SND_SEQ_DUMMY=mCONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=yCONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=mCONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=mCONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS_PLUGINS=yCONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS=yCONFIG_SND_RTCTIMER=mCONFIG_SND_SEQ_RTCTIMER_DEFAULT=y# CONFIG_SND_DYNAMIC_MINORS is not setCONFIG_SND_SUPPORT_OLD_API=yCONFIG_SND_VERBOSE_PROCFS=y# CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE_PRINTK is not set# CONFIG_SND_DEBUG is not setCONFIG_SND_MPU401_UART=mCONFIG_SND_OPL3_LIB=mCONFIG_SND_OPL4_LIB=mCONFIG_SND_VX_LIB=mCONFIG_SND_AC97_CODEC=mCONFIG_SND_DUMMY=mCONFIG_SND_VIRMIDI=mCONFIG_SND_MTPAV=mCONFIG_SND_MTS64=mCONFIG_SND_SERIAL_U16550=mCONFIG_SND_MPU401=mCONFIG_SND_AD1848_LIB=mCONFIG_SND_CS4231_LIB=mCONFIG_SND_ADLIB=mCONFIG_SND_AD1816A=mCONFIG_SND_AD1848=mCONFIG_SND_ALS100=mCONFIG_SND_AZT2320=mCONFIG_SND_CMI8330=mCONFIG_SND_CS4231=mCONFIG_SND_CS4232=mCONFIG_SND_CS4236=mCONFIG_SND_DT019X=mCONFIG_SND_ES968=mCONFIG_SND_ES1688=mCONFIG_SND_ES18XX=mCONFIG_SND_GUS_SYNTH=mCONFIG_SND_GUSCLASSIC=mCONFIG_SND_GUSEXTREME=mCONFIG_SND_GUSMAX=mCONFIG_SND_INTERWAVE=mCONFIG_SND_INTERWAVE_STB=mCONFIG_SND_OPL3SA2=mCONFIG_SND_OPTI92X_AD1848=mCONFIG_SND_OPTI92X_CS4231=mCONFIG_SND_OPTI93X=mCONFIG_SND_MIRO=mCONFIG_SND_SB8=mCONFIG_SND_SB16=mCONFIG_SND_SBAWE=mCONFIG_SND_SB16_CSP=yCONFIG_SND_SGALAXY=mCONFIG_SND_SSCAPE=mCONFIG_SND_WAVEFRONT=mCONFIG_SND_AD1889=mCONFIG_SND_ALS300=mCONFIG_SND_ALS4000=mCONFIG_SND_ALI5451=mCONFIG_SND_ATIIXP=mCONFIG_SND_ATIIXP_MODEM=mCONFIG_SND_AU8810=mCONFIG_SND_AU8820=mCONFIG_SND_AU8830=mCONFIG_SND_AZT3328=mCONFIG_SND_BT87X=mCONFIG_SND_BT87X_OVERCLOCK=yCONFIG_SND_CA0106=mCONFIG_SND_CMIPCI=mCONFIG_SND_CS4281=mCONFIG_SND_CS46XX=mCONFIG_SND_CS46XX_NEW_DSP=yCONFIG_SND_CS5535AUDIO=mCONFIG_SND_DARLA20=mCONFIG_SND_GINA20=mCONFIG_SND_LAYLA20=mCONFIG_SND_DARLA24=mCONFIG_SND_GINA24=mCONFIG_SND_LAYLA24=mCONFIG_SND_MONA=mCONFIG_SND_MIA=mCONFIG_SND_ECHO3G=mCONFIG_SND_INDIGO=mCONFIG_SND_INDIGOIO=mCONFIG_SND_INDIGODJ=mCONFIG_SND_EMU10K1=mCONFIG_SND_EMU10K1X=mCONFIG_SND_ENS1370=mCONFIG_SND_ENS1371=mCONFIG_SND_ES1938=mCONFIG_SND_ES1968=mCONFIG_SND_FM801=mCONFIG_SND_FM801_TEA575X_BOOL=yCONFIG_SND_FM801_TEA575X=mCONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL=mCONFIG_SND_HDSP=mCONFIG_SND_HDSPM=mCONFIG_SND_ICE1712=mCONFIG_SND_ICE1724=mCONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=mCONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0M=mCONFIG_SND_KORG1212=mCONFIG_SND_MAESTRO3=mCONFIG_SND_MIXART=mCONFIG_SND_NM256=mCONFIG_SND_PCXHR=mCONFIG_SND_RIPTIDE=mCONFIG_SND_RME32=mCONFIG_SND_RME96=mCONFIG_SND_RME9652=mCONFIG_SND_SONICVIBES=mCONFIG_SND_TRIDENT=mCONFIG_SND_VIA82XX=mCONFIG_SND_VIA82XX_MODEM=mCONFIG_SND_VX222=mCONFIG_SND_YMFPCI=mCONFIG_SND_AC97_POWER_SAVE=yCONFIG_SND_USB_AUDIO=mCONFIG_SND_USB_USX2Y=mCONFIG_SND_VXPOCKET=mCONFIG_SND_PDAUDIOCF=m# CONFIG_SOUND_PRIME is not set